Chapter 463: Maze Death Chronicle (3)

Chen Ran shrugged. Being covered by virtual people and virtual worlds made his head spin.

He rubbed the space between his eyebrows: "By the way, your skill is called Usurpation?"

"Yeah." Li Hao nodded: "My skill is called Usurpation. Its effect is to copy the skills that players just used. You see, the Middle-aged Uncle who used 【Countless】 just now is already dead, right? Yet I can copy his skill to make you forget numbers. Do you think I'd lie to you?"

Hearing this, Chen Ran sneered, then pulled out his Liar-Slayer and pointed his gun at the ceiling.

"Liar-Slayer·Eternal Kingdom!"

Click!

The Bullet jammed. Seeing this, the three people on the stairs were all startled. Chen Ran was dumbfounded.

He muttered: "Impossible, it clearly lied just now. Impossible! Why can't I use my skill?"

"It must have lied. It's impossible for Li Hao to have a skill called Usurpation!"

Chen Ran seemed slightly crazed, constantly muttering in his mouth, falling into deep self-doubt.

"You lied."

"You lied."

Two commands, two pitch-black gun barrels aimed at Chen Ran, and then pulled the trigger.

Click, click.

The sounds of two Bullets jamming rang out.

"You lied."

"You lied."

Two shots, two Middle-aged Uncles died.

Chen Ran put away his gun, glanced at the corpses of the two Middle-aged Uncles on the platform, and then looked at Li Hao with a smile: "Had enough fun?"

Li Hao's pupils abruptly shrank. He looked again at this opponent who was full of flaws all over. It was like a fierce beast pretending to sleep had awakened, baring its sharpest fangs, bringing destruction to the world.

"How did you know? How did you know that the Middle-aged Uncle who used 【Countless】 just now didn't die? How did you know that we were both in a hidden state? And how were you certain that the two people who Judged you just now weren't virtual people? Why?"

Chen Ran lit a cigarette, feeling that his number memory had recovered. He looked at Li Hao, somewhat speechless: "Which question should I answer first?"

Looking at his appearance, Li Hao's heart sank, and he said: "First answer, how did you know the Middle-aged Uncle who used 【Countless】 didn't die?"

That's right, the two people who Judged Chen Ran just now were two Middle-aged Uncles, one of which was the Middle-aged Uncle who had already died just now.

"Just now, I still had the effect of 【Countless】 on me, which means he didn't die."

Li Hao was startled. He didn't expect Chen Ran's answer to be so simple: "Are you that certain that it was the effect of 【Countless】 on you, and not the influence of Usurpation?"

Chen Ran took a puff of smoke and recalled: "From the Novice Tutorial Room until now, many players have wanted to form a team with me. Some of them had some petty shrewdness, and some were very strong, so strong that if we fought head-on, I might not necessarily win."

"But, other than Qiu Yinong, I rejected all the rest."

"Therefore, when I asked if you were interested in joining my team, I knew I was very likely hit by your skill. How could I possibly choose a player who might be a Slave to be my teammate?"

"In other words, the effect of your skill is highly likely to increase favorability. How could it possibly have the effect of copying skills? Logically speaking, they aren't even from the same system."

"Since your skill most likely cannot copy players' skills, yet I still had the effect of 【Countless】 on me, it meant that Middle-aged Uncle had not yet died."

"Moreover, anyone who can survive until now is basically not an idiot. Recall carefully the actions of that Middle-aged Uncle just now."

Li Hao frowned.

'Chen Ran stated the location of the exit. There was obviously no lie in his words.'

'But, the Uncle who doesn't like to speak Judged him, and the Judgment failed. Anyone should have guessed that the Middle-aged Uncle was a virtual person, baiting here, wanting to trick people into Judging him.'

'Yet the Middle-aged Uncle who used 【Countless】 was headstrong and fell for it. He went to Judge the Middle-aged Uncle who doesn't like to speak, and the Judgment failed.'

'During this process, the actions of the Middle-aged Uncle who used 【Countless】... indeed seemed too dumbed down. Therefore, Chen Ran deduced that he was also a virtual person. The two virtual people were showing off their acting skills here, wanting to trick out Chen Ran's Judgment.'

Simply put.

Assume.

The one who used Countless was Middle-aged Uncle A.

The one who didn't like to speak was Middle-aged Uncle B.

The process was:

Virtual Uncle B deliberately revealed a flaw by Judging Chen Ran's truth. The Judgment failed, wanting to trick Chen Ran into Judging Virtual Uncle B.

Chen Ran, Li Hao, and Virtual Uncle A all drew their guns and pointed them at Virtual Uncle B.

But, the first two didn't speak the command. Virtual Uncle A spoke the command.

The Judgment failed.

They wanted to trick Chen Ran into Judging Virtual Uncle A again.

But, Chen Ran still didn't fall for it.

So, Virtual Uncle B chose to Judge Virtual Uncle A, and the Judgment succeeded.

Because Chen Ran didn't understand the mechanism of a virtual person Judging a virtual person, he conducted an experiment and clipped through Virtual Uncle B.

He reached a conclusion: Just now, it was Virtual Uncle B who Judged Virtual Uncle A to death.

And just now Virtual Uncle B immediately threw Virtual Uncle A's corpse into the abyss.

It was out of fear that Chen Ran would discover a clue.

In other words.

When Chen Ran clipped through Virtual Uncle B, he knew that the real Middle-aged Uncle A didn't actually die, but was just invisible.

The first invisible person: Uncle A.

Immediately following.

Li Hao used a skill, which was even a skill used by the Instance BOSS from two Instances ago for Chen Ran.

Li Hao even said: 【My skill is called Usurpation. Its effect is to copy the skills that players just used.】

It was impossible for Li Hao to be so stupid as to lie himself.

According to the above deduction, this was impossible to happen. Therefore, the person who used the skill just now was actually the invisible Uncle A.

This also explained why Chen Ran had the effect of 【Countless】 on him.

Chen Ran reached a conclusion:

The Li Hao in front of his eyes was also a virtual person.

Then Li Hao's True Form was invisible.

The second invisible person: Li Hao.

In the Secret Room:

Invisible people: Li Hao, Uncle A.

Visible people: Chen Ran, Uncle B.

Virtual people: Li Hao.

Physical people: Chen Ran, Uncle B, Uncle A, Li Hao.

Standing in Chen Ran's perspective, Li Hao deduced Chen Ran's deduction process just now.

He said regretfully: "I didn't expect that the skill name I made up randomly was actually encountered by you before. It really is luck. What if I had made up another name at that time?"

"Would there be a difference?" Chen Ran asked rhetorically.

Li Hao was startled. Indeed, there was no difference. The point wasn't the name, but that increasing favorability and copying skills were not from the same system.

…

"I still don't understand, how were you certain that the two Uncles who Judged you just now were both physical entities and not virtual people?"

On the surface, there were only three players in the Secret Room, but in reality, there were invisible people, virtual people, physical entities, etc.

With such a complex composition, how was Chen Ran certain that those who Judged him just now were physical entities?

Chen Ran thought for a moment and said: "Among the skills of you three, the most troublesome one for me is the virtual person skill. What distressed me was how to distinguish virtual people?"

"I thought of clipping through, but I found that clipping through might be a Personal Common Sense Deception."

"The reason is very simple. Previously in the five-story small building, my clone clipped through a virtual person, and the virtual person disappeared; on the conveyor belt previously, the virtual person was clipped through and likewise disappeared; just now I touched the Uncle, and similarly clipped through, and the virtual person also disappeared."

"I found that these few instances of clipping through were all in Ghost Whisperer Secret Rooms."

Simply put, these few instances of clipping through all occurred in the Ghost Whisperer Secret Rooms created by Luo Xingchuan, his teammates, or Slaves.

Therefore, Chen Ran felt that this was highly likely a Personal Common Sense Deception, wanting to deceive Chen Ran into stating: The way to make a virtual person disappear is to touch them with your hands, and clipping through makes the virtual person disappear.

"So, I expanded the scope. When I returned from the Instance, the virtual people Qiu Yinong and Lin Xuan appeared beside me."

"I ran through all the virtual people I encountered in my mind and found..."

"These virtual people all have one common trait: Let's tentatively call the thing at the virtual person's waist a Liar-Slayer. The Liar-Slayers of these virtual people are all tucked into their left waist."

Li Hao's face looked ugly as he said: "So you touched the Middle-aged Uncle, his virtual person disappeared, his True Form appeared, and you saw his True Form's Liar-Slayer tucked into his right waist!"

"That's right. I also recalled that the difference between the True Form and the virtual body should be the position of the Liar-Slayer. Therefore, I felt that for the True Forms who had virtual people created from them, after being hit by the skill, their Liar-Slayers would appear on their right waist."

"If this is also a Personal Common Sense Deception, then you would need to collude with players outside the Alliance Ancient Tower who can create virtual people to cooperate with you in acting out this play."

Speaking up to here, Chen Ran didn't continue. He looked Li Hao up and down, as if to say:

Just relying on you guys?